Two Who Attained: Twentieth-Century Sufi Saints, Shaykh Ahmad al-'Alawi & Fatima al-Yashrutiyya Children's literature ISBN-13: 978-0986720802

ISBN-13: 978-0986720802

Myriam Francois

the Infinitely Compassionate

This lovely book from the author of Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns invites readers to understand and appreciate the hijab and the Muslim women who decide to wear it

and bear wonderful life sustaining fruit

Two Who Attained: Twentieth-Century Sufi Saints, Shaykh Ahmad al-'Alawi & Fatima al-Yashrutiyya Children's literature ISBN-13: 978-0986720802Rare glimpses of two 20th century Sufi saints are offered in this work: the eminent Shaykh al Alawi and the lesser known woman saint Fatima al Yashrutiyya, both of whom continued on the Sufi path even as they watched their worlds crumble. Shaykh al Alawi's influence was pivotal to the spiritual development of Thomas Merton, who looked to al Alawi's writings and teachings in his own practice (see Fons Vitae's Merton and Sufism). Fatima al Yashrutiyya